| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: hardly fair judges of confusions of thought in those who view things
differently from ourselves.
5. There appears also to be an incorrectness in the notion which occurs
both here and in the Gorgias, of the simultaneousness of merely bodily
pleasures and pains. We may, perhaps, admit, though even this is not free
from doubt, that the feeling of pleasureable hope or recollection is, or
rather may be, simultaneous with acute bodily suffering. But there is no
such coexistence of the pain of thirst with the pleasures of drinking; they
are not really simultaneous, for the one expels the other. Nor does Plato
seem to have considered that the bodily pleasures, except in certain
extreme cases, are unattended with pain. Few philosophers will deny that a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: his life blew him straight before it. Didn't she catch in his face
at times, even through his smile and his happy habit, the gleam of
that pale glare with which a bewildered victim appeals, as he
passes, to some pair of pitying eyes? He perhaps didn't even
himself know how scared he was; but SHE knew. They were in danger,
they were in danger, Captain Everard and Lady Bradeen: it beat
every novel in the shop. She thought of Mr. Mudge and his safe
sentiment; she thought of herself and blushed even more for her
tepid response to it. It was a comfort to her at such moments to
feel that in another relation--a relation supplying that affinity
with her nature that Mr. Mudge, deluded creature, would never
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: sentimental reasons a man might like to see his old
head once more, just as one likes to revisit an old
home."
"And then to kiss it good-bye," added the Scarecrow.
"I hope that tin thing won't try to kiss me good-
bye!" exclaimed the Tin Woodman's former head. "And I
don't see what right you folks have to disturb my peace
and comfort, either."
"You belong to me," the Tin Woodman declared.
"I do not!"
"You and I are one."
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
